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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

evolution of a quilt top

Here's a little rundown on how this community quilt top came to be....

I started with several blue scraps (thanks to Heather!) and cut several 4.5" squares with my Go! baby while talking to a very good friend on the phone. (I love multitasking!) The go cutter made quick work of the task. Plus, it was easy to do while I was on the phone. :)

I had enough blue scraps to make 26 blocks. But how to lay them out to get a decent size quilt? I mulled it over for several days. At this point I also started thinking about what I could use for the back of the quilt.

One night while I was NOT sleeping, I remembered I had this fabric, which would work great for the back. It came from my neighbor, Mary. It was leftover from her son's school project and it ended up in my stash. Who am I to turn away awesome fabric?

The backing choice inspired the addition of a few green blocks. These fabrics came from my stash. I'm so glad I added the green, the quilt would have been very flat without it.

Here's the finished quilt top! I wasn't sure I was going to like it before I sewed it together, but now I am pleased as punch! My son just told me that it looked kinda weird and kinda cool. Ha! Good to know! :)

So there you have a slightly scary look at the inner working of my brain and how a quilt comes together. :) Lots of using what I have, using what others share with me, and bits of inspiration during sleepless nights. That about sums it up!

I like the quilt top very much. I often have problems with a similar pattern (at least for me, I mean the disappearing 9 patch pattern) as it often creates a pattern that has a historical background that we don't like over here. But I like this simple version very much and it may be something for me. Thanks for sharing.Blue and green and grey: my favorite colour combination. :)

Very nice, the green definately gave it some texture. I noticed that those look like what you get when cutting disappearing nine patch blocks.... might be faster in the future! Just a thought, I love this!

I think one of the things I like best about this quilt (from a new quilter) it does not have lots of corners to match up and it looks great! Plus it will look good in SOOOOO many different colour pallets! Boy/girl/ big/little! Thanks for sharing!!

Why is everything you do so stinkin' awesome! I keep thinking about your quilt retreat and have talked to my daughter and sister in law (again) about going to it..."for sure next year!" No pressure...but yeah, we're planning...I've checked airline prices to Denver...:)

I love the color combination and the simplicity in this quilt. I also thought that instead of having scraps from cutting down the larger 4-square block that you could use the disappearing 9-patch method, thus leaving you with 4 usable blocks and no scraps per se.